Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Dorse isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1913. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Dorse through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 254
- 254 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1929
- 16 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 1949. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 16 in 1929. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 126 as a first name in 2020; 256 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Dorse’s family of names
The ring: across languages.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
Similar names
If you love Dorse, these share its style, era, origin or sound, from outside its own family.
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>99% boys
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>99% boys
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>99% boys
Delton
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>99% boys
Odis
Odis is a masculine given name.
>99% boys
Orlin
“the golden child”
>99% boys
Gene
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98% boys · 2% girls